SynthesisBMC complementary and alternative medicine2013
Meta-analysis of acupuncture for relieving non-organic dyspeptic symptoms suggestive of diabetic gastroparesis.
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- Acupuncture for symptomatic gastroparesis.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018Pooled it
- The Autonomic Nervous System in Acupuncture for Gastrointestinal Dysmotility: From Anatomical Insights to Clinical Medicine.International journal of medical sciences · 2025Review
- Investigating the Effectiveness of Electroacupuncture for Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy and Exploring the Feasibility of Infrared Thermography as an Efficacy Assessment Tool: Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of pain research · 2024Article
- An overview of systematic reviews of acupuncture for diabetic gastroparesis.Frontiers in medicine · 2023Review
- Gastroparesis: Myths, Misconceptions, and Management.Clinical and experimental gastroenterology · 2023Review
- Effectiveness of acupuncture as adjunctive therapy in type 2 diabetic: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.PloS one · 2023Article
- Nausea and Vomiting in 2021: A Comprehensive Update.Journal of clinical gastroenterology · 2021Review
- An Apriori Algorithm-Based Association Rule Analysis to Identify Acupoint Combinations for Treating Diabetic Gastroparesis.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2021Article
- Acupoint catgut embedding for diabetic gastroparesis: A protocol of systematic review.Medicine · 2019Article
- Gentle Manual Acupuncture Could Better Regulate Gastric Motility and Vagal Afferent Nerve Discharge of Rats with Gastric Hypomotility.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2019Article
- Acupuncture and related techniques for type 2 diabetes mellitus: A systematic review protocol.Medicine · 2019Article
- Prevention of type 2 diabetes mellitus with acupuncture: Protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis.Medicine · 2018Article
- Diabetic gastroparesis: current challenges and future prospects.Clinical and experimental gastroenterology · 2018Review
- Effect of electroacupuncture on gastric interstitial cells of Cajal in a rat model of diabetic gastroparesis.Experimental and therapeutic medicine · 2016Article
- Treatment of Diabetic Gastroparesis by Complementary and Alternative Medicines.Medicines (Basel, Switzerland) · 2015Review
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Abstract
backgroundAcupuncture is widely used to treat diabetic patients with dyspeptic symptoms suggestive of gastroparesis in China. We conducted this systematic review of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to evaluate the efficacy of acupuncture for diabetic gastroparesis (DGP).
methodsWe searched PubMed, EMBASE, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) and four Chinese databases including China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), VIP Database for Chinese Technical Periodicals, Chinese Biomedical Literature Database (CBM) and WanFang Data up to January 2013 without language restriction. Eligible RCTs were designed to examine the efficacy of acupuncture in improving dyspeptic symptoms and gastric emptying in DGP. Risk of bias, study design and outcomes were extracted from trials. Relative risk (RR) was calculated for dichotomous data. Mean difference (MD) and standardized mean difference (SMD) were selected for continuous data to pool the overall effect.
resultsWe searched 744 studies, among which 14 RCTs were considered eligible. Overall, acupuncture treatment had a higher response rate than controls (RR, 1.20 [95% confidence interval (CI), 1.12 to 1.29], P < 0.00001), and significantly improved dyspeptic symptoms compared with the control group. There was no difference in solid gastric emptying between acupuncture and control. Acupuncture improved single dyspeptic symptom such as nausea and vomiting, loss of appetite and stomach fullness. However, most studies were in unclear and high risk of bias and with small sample size (median = 62). The majority of the RCTs reported positive effect of acupuncture in improving dyspeptic symptoms.
conclusionsThe results suggested that acupuncture might be effective to improve dyspeptic symptoms in DGP, while a definite conclusion about whether acupuncture was effective for DGP could not be drawn due to the low quality of trials and possibility of publication bias. Further large-scale, high-quality randomized clinical trials are needed to validate this claim and translate this result to clinical practice.
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